On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 18:42 +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: > > If you set CONFIG_MODULE=y and build SCSI we assume you could have a > > SCSI driver module at some point, which would necessitate the wait scan > > module. > > This should be implemented like "Library routines" and only added if such > a SCSI driver module is actually selected. Why can't it at least be a > visible option in the menu? (Although even then it looks like it's > impossible to disable). There's out of tree modules to consider. > Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. libata-pata does require SCSI ... and I suspect the libata developers didn't want to trip users by them having to select SCSI before they could select libata. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html